Shirt-collar.



M. H. ROSEN & J. HERMAN. SHIRT COLLAR. APPLIGATION FILED PEB.17, 1913.

1,101,334. Patented June 23, 1914.

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UNITED s'rATEs PATENT. onnion.

MORRIS H. ROSEN AND JOSEPH HERMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-COLLAR.

Application filed February 17, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MORRIS H. Rosnn andJOSEPH HERMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, inthe county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Shirt-Collars; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to convertible collars and has for an object toprovide means for causing a collar to assume a low or military effect.

A further object of this invention is a provision of a collar which maybe made detachable from or integral with a shirt, which collar has a tabto assume a position against the stand of said collar in either thefront or back thereof as desired.

A further object of this invention is a provision of a tab made integralwith the stand of a collar which tab is concealed by the leaf of saidcollar at the rear thereof when a low.collar is desired and which tabpasses about the front of said collar under the leaf when a military orhigh collar is desired.

Further objects will be apparent from the following specification,appended claim and drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shirt having this invention appliedthereto, Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view showing the principle of the taband its construction, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a detachablecollar made in accordance with our invention.

In certain styles of collars particularly those made of soft materials,it is desired to provide means which permits the collar to assume a lowposition or to ha-ve the ends thereof which meet in the front assumeastanding position so as to present a military effect. 7 I

As shown in the drawings 10 indicates a shirt to which is secured astand 11 and to which stand is secured a leaf 12. The stand is of lesswidth at its ends in front than at the rear of the collar as in thecommon types to permit the collar to be low in front, The stand is madein the usual way having the inner ply of fabric 13 and the outer plies1A and 15 which plies meet as at 16 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914..

Serial No. 748,923.

and continue in a tab 17. It will be noted that the tab is made integralwith the stand and is composed of extensions from the plies of fabricconstituting the stand. The stitching indicated at 18 holds the plies offabric 13, 14 and 15 in fixed relation to one another but terminates atthe point 16 where the stitching 19 used in holding the plies of fabricconstituting the tab also terminates.

The free end of the tab- 17 is provided with a fastening means such as abuttonhole 20 to receive a button 21 carried by the stand at any desiredpoint to receive the end of the tab after having passed across the backor front. of the collar. One end of the stand terminates in a tab 22 asof the usual construction while the opposite end of the stand carriesbuttons or other fastening means 23.

As the back of the stand is of greater width than the front and the tab17 is of the same width as the back of the stand it is apparent thatwhen the tab 17 is placed across the front of the stand it raises theline upon which the ends of the leaf are folded to present the desiredmilitary effect. lVhen the low type of collar is desired this tab ispassed across the back of the stand as shown in Fig. 3 and secured inthat-position when the leaf may be folded to present a collar of thecommon type.

Modifications may be made within the scope of this invention andtherefore the drawings are submitted for illustrative purposes only.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

In a convertible collar comprising a stand and a leaf, said stand beingof unequal width in front and back, a tab formed integral with saidstand, said tab being formed of continuations of the fabric comprisingthe stand, said tab having a width equal to that of the back of thestand and said tab passing across the front of the stand to produce astand of the desired width when so de sired.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

MORRIS H. ROSEN. JOSEPH HER-MAN. Witnesses M NNA QUELLER, MARTHA Gross.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressingthe "Commissioner of Patents,

'Washington, D. G.

